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Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Woodrow Wilson

What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
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Government Law Opinion Organization Seek
The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one’s mind with other men’s thoughts is to have no thoughts of one’s own.
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Man Mindset Oneself Reading Thinking
Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy.
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Big Business Dangerous Enjoyment Privilege
Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet dreams.
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Close Dreams Luxury Philosophy Thinking
America was born a Christian nation.
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Born Nation Religious
If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.
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Character Devotion Himself Man People Thinking
Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
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Ideal Identity Nation People Time World
Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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Heart Loyalty Myself Principle Sacrifice
The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
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Democracy Design Government Hands Interest People
Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever.
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Forever Himself Human Kind Man Resistance World
Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.
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God Life Perfection Trust Work
When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
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Care Growth Man Myself Observation
A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
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Defeat Himself Man Success
As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.
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Division Experience Fact Irresponsible Power
I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, ‘A free field and no favor.’
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Business Kind Liberty Sports Thinking World
If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.
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Color Mistake Myself People Vote

Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

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